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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have launched the Atoms4Food initiative to help boost food security and tackle growing world hunger. It will support countries to use innovative nuclear techniques in enhancing agricultural productivity, reducing food losses, ensuring food safety, improving nutrition, and adapting to the challenges of climate change.

Date: Friday, 20 October 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-and-fao-launch-atoms4food-initiative-11232607

From 7 to 18 November 2022 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Atoms4Climate pavilion at the 2022 UN Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – COP27 – in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, will host a full programme of IAEA and partner events to showcase nuclear science and technology solutions for climate change mitigation, adaptation and monitoring. More than 35,000 people are expected to attend COP27, including more than 100 heads of state.

Date: Friday, 11 November 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-to-play-key-role-at-cop27-10284906

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Seibersdorf facility near Vienna to mark the start of construction on a new nuclear applications laboratories building. The new building will house three laboratories: Plant Breeding and Genetics (PBGL), Terrestrial Environment and Radiochemistry (TERC) and Nuclear Science and Instrumentation (NSIL).

Date: Friday, 07 October 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-breaks-ground-on-new-laboratory-block

A pilot trial of a nuclear technique in a neighbourhood of the Cuban capital Havana reduced mosquito numbers by up to 90% last year. Early reports show that cases of mosquito-borne diseases were completely eliminated in the last two months of the trial.

Date: Saturday, 15 January 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-technique-cuts-mosquito-numbers-in-Cuban-t

In the run up to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26 in November, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a comprehensive report setting out how nuclear techniques can help the world adapt to a changing climate and become more resilient to extreme weather events.

Date: Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-releases-two-reports-in-run-up-to-cop26-9162429

A new infrared system is helping the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to speed up the sorting of male from female tsetse flies as the agency controls the breeding of the insect using irradiation. The tsetse is a bloodsucking insect found in sub-Saharan Africa which transmits a parasite that can be fatal to both animals and humans.

Date: Friday, 08 January 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-announces-innovation-in-tsetse-fly-control

IAEA study says finding is important step in disease control The IAEA study tested the use of a drone to release sterile mosquitoes as part of the sterile insect iechnique. The use of drones can significantly increase effectiveness and reduce costs in the application of a nuclear technique to suppress disease-carrying mosquitoes, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency study.

The agency said the finding marks an important step forward towards the large-scale deployment of this method to control the vectors of dengue, yellow fever and Zika.

The study, published in the journal Science Robotics, tested the use of a drone to release sterile mosquitoes as part of the sterile insect iechnique (SIT) – a form of insect birth control that has been used successfully for decades to fight agricultural pests such as the Mediterranean fruit fly and tsetse flies. Scientists have been working in recent years to develop the method also for mosquitoes.

The SIT uses radiation to sterilise mass-reared male insects, which are then released to mate with wild females. As these do not produce any offspring, the insect population declines over time.

Date: Saturday, 20 June 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/breakthrough-for-use-of-nuclear-technique-to-fight-mosquitoes-6-5-2020

A nuclear technique has successfully reduced the tsetse fly population in Senegal without harming other insects, an eight-year study has found. The study was supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), together with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an insect birth control method that uses radiation to sterilise male flies.

Date: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Radiation-used-to-control-tsetse-fly-numbers-in-Se

Nuclear energy is a mature and proven low-carbon source of electricity, with a 60-year track record of providing reliable and safe operation. Further innovation and technological development will enable even wider applications aimed at deep decarbonisation of economies around the world and supporting sustainable development. This was the message of King Lee, director of the Harmony Programme at World Nuclear Association, to delegates at the UN side event for Sustainable Development Goal 9, held today at COP25 in Madrid.

Date: Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-Nuclear-energy-innovation-for-clean-growth

Thanks to receipt of additional funding, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Flexible Modular Laboratory (FML), currently under construction, remains on track to be completed by the end of 2018. It will comprise three laboratories dealing with animal production and health, food safety, soil and water management and crop nutrition.

Date: Wednesday, 04 October 2017
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-achieves-funding-target-for-new-laboratory-building-5940332